Site permits · Maryland

Where Maryland breaks ground, permit by permit.

Grading, utility, and site work filings are the earliest permits on a parcel, which makes them the earliest warning of everything that follows. Tradewinds observes them in county permit records.

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What site filings mark.
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Grading and excavation

The first permit on a parcel that is about to be built on, ahead of every trade that follows.

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Utility and sewer work

Service connections date the point at which a parcel becomes buildable.

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Stormwater and drainage

Drainage filings mark parcels under active development, and they carry the engineering firm's name.

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The earliest signal

Site work leads the sequence, so it is the longest lead time the permit record offers.

6862
site permits observed in Maryland, since January 2019

By county

Frederick 4398
Howard 1691
Anne Arundel 434
Carroll 339

By year

2021 880
2022 1549
2023 1089
2024 1083
2025 1114
2026 1147

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Every Monday we publish last week's site permits for every county we cover. Browse this week's activity.

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Built from county permit filings. Not every filing names a trade cleanly, and counties differ in what they publish, so these counts reflect our coverage as much as the work happening on the ground.